Dr. Michael Merz

Dr. Michael Merz

WORKING GROUP 2. DILI RISK STRATIFICATION

Deputy for Leader WG2 (michael.merz@t-online.de)

University Hospital Zurich (Switzerland)

 

  • Clinical Pharmacologist and Drug Safety Expert
  • 1993-1998: Quintiles Research, Freiburg, Germany
  • 1998-2017: Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
    • Head Modeling and Simulation, Clinical Pharmacology
    • Global Safety Profiling Director, Exploratory Clinical Development
    • Section Head Systems Toxicology & Head Safety Networks, Translational Sciences
    • Chair investigative Liver Expert Team, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
  • 2010-2016: Project coordinator IMI SAFE-T consortium for clinical safety biomarker qualification
  • Since 05/2017: Independent consultant, focus on Drug-Induced Liver Injury; Consortium Coordinator at University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland
  • In charge of proposal H2020-JTI-IMI2-2017-13-two-stage: Translational Safety Biomarker Pipeline (TransBioLine): Enabling development and implementation of novel safety biomarkers in clinical trials and diagnosis of disease